Has anyone got any more information regarding this? I assume since it's related to the SDA Union that it's bargaining for pay increases. I wonder what work hours related issues are being discussed, more breaks? Shorted limit on shift lengths or something?
I am a student, currently working on a project comparing automotive paint samples aged in water samples over a month. I've been given access to ATR-FTIR (using transmittance) to test the epoxy clear coat layer of these chips. The issue is, I have about 300 chip samples, and I've just found out I have no access to a database of references for these samples, or access to any CSV data files from the software we use. I have hundreds of FTIR spectra and I'm at a loss for how to process this raw data into something that can convey the amount of chemical degeneration of the epoxy over time, that can be presented in a report. From what I can see, the most I can do is compare peaks, but overall the ageing has not massively impacted peaks, there's still peaks where I would expect them to be comparing controls to samples, the only difference is minor changes in the peak location and height. I've not been given any resources in my course this far outside of identification of functional groups, nothing to say of how to further process any results. I was hoping to get CSV files to process but that's not really an option.
Any help would be appreciated, I've been racking my brain for months over this, I'm a Biology major, so I don't have much experience.